FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



Tel. Another variety, Deergavartaka, Sans. Euri-byingun, 

 Dec. Kaliana-katrikai, Tarn. Kodikaloo-vankaia t Tel. 

 Habitat. Africa. Cultivated round the globe. 



Remarks. The o-rpvxvos of Theophrastus, and Megilana of the Abbess 

 Hildegard according to Sprengel. The long variety Roxburgh makes a 

 distinct species, S. longum. In Bombay there are several varieties, viz. 

 Doorlee-wangee, round Brinjal ; Ban-wangee, common, large Brinjal ; and 

 Yel-wangee, long, white Brinjal, of which a sub-variety is striped red 

 (Graham). 5. ovigerum, S. nigrum, S. quitoense, Quito Orange, S. laci- 

 niatum, Kangaroo Apple, and S. cethiopicum (cultivated in China), have 

 all edible berries. The Thorns of Prov. xv. 1 9, Briar of Micah vii. 4, 

 Cockle of Job xxxi. 40, and Wild Grapes of Isaiah v. 2, are supposed to 

 refer to species of Solanum (Balfour). The Rev. Dr. Wilson (Lands 

 of the Bible, ch. xiv) found S. sanctum, Lflnn., in Palestine, where the 

 Arabs call it Leimun Lut, a Lot's Lemon ; and Dr. Wilson believes it to 

 be the "vine" (Deut. xxxi. 32) 



"which grew 

 Near that bituminous lake where Sodom stood." 



Hasselquist (Lands of the Bible), under the names of " Mala insana," and 

 " Poma sodomitica," refers this berry to S. Melongena. The true Mad- 

 Apple however is S. insanum, called, according to Dr. Wilson, Aneb-edh- 

 dhib, or Grape of the Wolf, by the Arabs. Dr. Robinson (Lands of the Bible) 

 believes the Calotiopis gigantea, our Ak or Mudar, to be the Apple of 

 Sodom ; but he can hardly have seen the true Ak y as Dr. Wilson writes of 

 it as having a fruit of a "yellowish colour," and " certainly like an apple 

 or orange in size and form." The passage in Deuteronomy is : "Their 

 vines are of the vineyard of Sodom, and of the suburbs of Gomorrha ; 

 their grapes are grapes of gall, and their clusters most bitter ;" and 

 probably refers to the austerity of the fruits of the plain of the present 

 Salt Lake, rather than to any particular plant. 



Solanum tuberosum. W. Potatoe. 



Linn. Syst. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The tuber, used as a vegetable. 



Vernacular. Alu-guddalu, Tel. Rata-innala, Cey. 



Habitat. Peru. Its cultivation has spread from this over the whole 

 earth, to Spitzbergen, Kamtschatka, and Van Dieman's Land. 



Remarks. The Papas of Peru. It was introduced into Spain early in 

 the 15th century, and from thence passed into Italy, and Austria. The 

 colonists sent out to Virginia by Raleigh are supposed to have introduced 

 it into England on their return home in July 1586. Gerarde figures it in 

 his Herbal, 1597 ; but mentions it as having been then used like the Sweet 

 Potatoe as a confection (Loudon). See Convolvulus Batatas, N, O. 151, 

 For the genus Capsicum, see " Condiments and Spices." 

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